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AMD narrows gap with new notebook chips
News AMD is releasing two new notebook chips on Tuesday, narrowing the performance gap with rival Intel. Although the overall PC market continues to shrink, notebook sales are growing, partly because of declining prices and a burgeoning market for...
[September 24, 2002, 7:24]
Intel powers up notebook chips
News The new chip launch comes in the middle of the back-to-school shopping season, and the time when IT managers are purging their corporate budgets, so it should help to stimulate the notebook market," said IDC analyst, Alan Promisel.
[July 30, 2001, 18:03]
Intel revs up notebook chips
News In response to the trend, Intel has reduced prices on its existing Pentium 4-M chips to make them more attractive to notebook makers, analysts say. Meanwhile, on the other end of the notebook spectrum, Intel introduced four new ultra-low power...
[January 15, 2003, 9:47]
AMD unveils two new notebook chips
News Advanced Micro Devices released two notebook chips on Sunday, building on a recent surge of sales of processors for portables. Like other Athlon 64 chips, and Intel's Prescott, the new notebook processor will block many security threats...
[July 19, 2004, 9:15]
AMD chips target wireless notebook trend
News Earlier in the week, Transmeta, another maker of notebook chips, unveiled details of its forthcoming TM8000 processor. AMD currently commands 19 percent of the market for desktop and notebook chips. Fujitsu is expected to release a notebook in the...
[March 12, 2003, 8:36]
New Pentiums unveiled
News Intel introduced a line of Pentium 4 desktop chips on Sunday in the US that contain 2MB of secondary cache, twice as much as current Pentium 4s, as well as technology from its notebook line that's designed to cut power consumption.
[February 21, 2005, 7:55]
Intel notebooks sport low-power chips
News New Intel notebook chips aim to offer less power to the people. Several notebook PC manufacturers will ship new lightweight laptops based on the Pentium III-M chips, which are designed to consume about half the power of a regular mobile chip from...
[April 19, 2002, 9:06]
Intel delivers cheaper Pentium Ms
News Intel on Wednesday delivered a pair of lower-priced Pentium M chips as part of its latest line of notebook processors. The chipmaker added the Pentium M 715 and the Pentium M 725, which run at 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz, respectively, to its recently...
[June 23, 2004, 16:20]
Intel to boost mobile chips
News Intel plans to release faster, cheaper notebook-oriented Pentium 4 chips this year, even as manufacturers continue using less-expensive desktop Pentiums in notebooks to cut costs and attract buyers in the cut-throat consumer market.
[January 28, 2003, 16:12]
Intel shaves mobile chip prices
News Intel cut prices on its notebook chips by up to 38 percent on Sunday, the first discount in what looks to be an eventful year for notebooks. Price tags on Celeron notebook chips, designed for inexpensive laptop models, and on low-voltage Pentium...
[January 14, 2003, 7:48]
Faster notebooks target bigger spenders
News Intel will release its fastest chips ever for notebook PCs later this month. For that reason, "People will continue to buy high-end notebook chips. Other notebook PC vendors, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, are expected to join it with new...
[September 15, 2000, 11:41]
Intel edges into Transmeta territory with new chip
News Intel is releasing two chips that will compete directly with Transmeta's Crusoe processors in the notebook market, and the scary part for Transmeta is that it didn't take Intel long at all. The two ultra-low-power chips are aimed directly at taking...
[January 30, 2001, 10:59]
Intel redraws processor roadmap
News One of the server chips Intel will release next year comes from an unusual place: its notebook group. Intel's desktop and notebook chips are sold under numbers in the hundreds, such as the Celeron 350.
[July 28, 2005, 9:00]
New Intel chips span mobile spectrum
News The ultra-low voltage chips run on a half of a watt of energy or lower, far less than standard notebook chips, which means manufacturers can eliminate components normally needed to dissipate excess heat produced at higher energy levels.
[January 23, 2002, 10:44]
Intel draws notebook and desktop chip lines together
News The underlying architecture of Intel's notebook and desktop chip families will be reunited by 2007, and the resulting chips will have an Israeli accent. The chip giant will adopt a common processor core, code-named Merom, for its notebook and...
[March 30, 2004, 8:30]
Hitachi sets November launch for Crusoe notebook
News Japanese electronics leader Hitachi has said it will use Transmeta's Crusoe chips in notebook computers to be launched in November, stepping up competition against Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Hitachi itself demonstrated a prototype notebook...
[September 7, 2000, 13:24]
Transmeta climbs into embedded market
News The Crusoe SE processors are similar to the company's notebook chips but will be incorporated into a wider variety of nontraditional devices, such as point-of-display terminals or in-car entertainment systems.
[January 6, 2003, 7:50]
Intel lays out consumer blueprints
News Intel is readying a line of consumer electronics chips based on the IA-32 architecture, the design underlying the vast majority of Intel's desktop, notebook and server processors, said Louis Burns, co-general manger of the Desktop Platforms Group...
[November 4, 2004, 7:58]
Intel details dual-core notebook chip
News The chip, which will be made on the 65nm process, will come with a number of enhancements over the current Pentium M line of notebook chips, Mooly Eden, vice-president of the mobility group, said at a briefing in San Francisco.
[June 3, 2005, 9:20]
Intel tweaks roadmap to boost Pentium M
News Intel will, over the next few weeks, release several faster Pentium M and mobile Pentium 4 processors for notebook PCs. As previously reported, Intel will achieve the faster clock speeds of the Pentium 4-M by offering a new version of the chip that...
[May 29, 2003, 15:13]
